NAUGATUCK -- Police arrested a woman after they said she hit her 13-year-old daughter with a shoe, locked her out of their apartment for hours and poured hot water on her on Independence Day.

Florence Barnett-Levy, 39, of 933 Rubber Ave., had been shopping with her daughter on July 3, said Lt. Greg Dean of the Naugatuck Police Department. After they got back to their apartment in the Southwood complex, they discovered that a bag of purchased clothes had been left behind in a Waterbury store and Barnett-Levy blamed her daughter, Dean said.

Barnett-Levy became upset and began to yell at about 11 p.m., Dean said. She hit her daughter on her back and legs with a sneaker, but the teen did not sustain significant injuries, Dean said.

The teen ran out of the house and Barnett-Levy locked the door behind her, Dean said. The teen remained outside for several hours, repeatedly banging on the door to get back inside, Dean said.

At one point, Barnett-Levy opened the door and threw cold water on her daughter, doing so again about 15 minutes later, Dean said. The third time, the teen told police, the water was hot and burned for a few seconds when it landed on her back.

Police were called to the scene just after 4:30 a.m., when someone reported the teen was screaming for help. She did not appear visibly burned, but the ground outside was wet and a warm jug was sitting next to the door, Dean said.

Barnett-Levy was charged with risk of injury to a child, first-degree reckless endangerment and attempt to commit second-degree assault. She was held on a $5,000 bond and appeared Friday in Waterbury Superior Court.

Contact Alia Malik at amalik@rep-am.com, on Facebook at RA Naugatuck or on Twitter @RA_Alia.

" Welfare makes people lazy to find a job. They want to live off from taxpayers. 80% of the people on welfare are drug users.Would you call this a progressive open life society ?I call it the braking down of the once great United States of America. Being proud of the USA ? Not anymore !!!Alexis Tocqueville was right that democracy will fail. / "

" So where do we get off making this about welfare or about being a minority. the only uneducated people are the people sitting here writing about something they have no clue about for real. I know this person personally and she is well educated and not on welfare and she is not a single mom if you see the double last name. Wake up because the only that's able to judge is God and since we are throwing around nursery rhymes have you ever heard the saying people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones well apply that to your life. "

" I was definitely hit with a shoe, maybe locked out for five minutes during the day and no water incidents. I must have talked back or lied. My parents were together and they did work and go to college. It was in the seventies. I am a single parent and have done none of the above and fortunately have never had to summons the police. Maybe calling the store as soon as they realized would have been less explosive and a better example. "

" They need to convert 933 Rubber ave to owner occupied condos..no more rentals...end the problems. Too many rental apts; too many people together in a close space without owner responsibility in the property..hope she gets help "

" @cons why every time the person is black or Hispanic you automatically say they are on walfare ?Why you hate people so much ?Why most of your post are so vulgar and offensive to black and Hispanic ?Why people like you are allow to keep postin disgusting stuff on this news paper ? Are you perfec cus your daddy gave you everything ?Or you just better than any Hispanic or black ? "

" Abuse didn't go on in traditional families?If you think that abuse has happened because of the transformation of the "traditional" family then you're not even worth presenting examples to because you're too ignorant to understand.

I always find it interesting that there are the same people who comment that apparently know what the lives of everyone is like. "

" i had planned on staying out of this one, but manny's last post got me.

come on manny. are you really condoning what she did? you don't see any wrong in locking a kid out until past 4am? are you giving her a pass because of her skin color? or is it somehow whitey's fault? "

" Cons ..you sound like you have the power to tell the po po like you call dem (I prefer the pork chop Patrol) to go aarrest this girl ?How about the family of the person tha pass away ? Do you think they are demanding she gets it ?What make you think you have tha power ?Al.cap when I was a little kid I got hit with more than a shoe ..this is why kids are the way they are ..The law protect dem .I'm not condoning what this lady did ..black or white ..I just trying to make a point..white kill no arrest. .back hit her kid goes to jail "

" manny, spare the rod, spoil the child. you'll get no argument from me on that. but locking the kid out til 4am in that place putting the kid in danger. i lived there for three years( paid fair market rent, no subsidy). 20 years ago it was bad, i can only imagine it today. i think, because the charge doesn't carry the weight of the one involving the texting driver, the decision on what charges to file was much easier, so we got a quick arrest. in wolcott, it seems they want to have a strong case before proceeding. no one wants to see that case bungled. "

" Con ur wrong this women is NOT on Welfare, I don't care how many times u have pick up people up in these apartments, She has Not lived there long ,so the next time you want to pick up something, let it be a book, Your from Harford you had a hard life,ur the last who should be judging,Greg ur words have been said b4, What happen to the other women who was arrested on the very nite, Lt. never called Alia an tell her that he had a story on her, ooo yeah she wa white,every1 has sin,just because ur sin has not been place in the public ur no better than she, let the judge an God judge her,This women will never be able to walk around with her children because of people like you COn, Lt Greg question how much of the article is true, Flo I'm here 4 u hun thx Man,just like in the pass white man has broken a family up, but this lady has been thou enough, Never look down on a person only if your given them your to help them up "

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